Note found in accused’s fridge contained PINs to Eduardo Balaquit’s bank cards, jury hears

A Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench jury the expert testimony of a forensic identification officer in the ongoing Eduardo Balaquit manslaughter trial.

One day after the Winnipeg Police Service initially arrested Kyle Alexander Pietz on the June 4, 2018, in connection with the disappearance of Eduardo Balaquit, officers searched Pietz’s home, a Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench jury was told.

Const. Susan Desender, an exhibits officer with the WPS’s forensic identification unit, testified Tuesday that on June 6, 2018, officers found a 7-Eleven bag in the fridge with a Post-It note stuck to the bottom.

“What’s written on the top of that sticky note?” Brent Davidson, a Crown attorney, asked Desender.

“It’s a yellow sticky note with a little strip across the back and on the top in black ink is numbers,” Desender testified.

Numbers the jury heard matched the personal identification numbers or PINs Balaquit’s wife previously testified her husband used for his bankcards.

“At the time you photographed the exhibit, were you aware that those were the same numbers that Ms. Balaquit told us were Eduardo’s PINs?” Davidson asked.

“No, I was not,” Desender told the court.